A $50 million grant commitment to the University of Chicago from CRI Foundation, Inc. will establish the University as the administrative home of the Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics, ...

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...

The outsourced business process service industry makes $300 billion a year, employs 14 million, and has a 10-year compound annual growth rate of 8%. Yet it has a fatal flaw that may eventually destroy ...

Yale College seniors Bilal Moin and Daevan Mangalmurti have a mutual interest in international development, a branch of economics that examines the forces affecting economic development and individual ...

The Yale Economic Growth Center in conjunction with Inclusion Economics Yale has kicked off a symposium focusing on race, ethnicity, gender and economic justice. The symposium is spread over the ...

The UChicago Women’s Board invited Nobel laureate and economics professor Michael Kremer to speak at their annual dinner at the Rubenstein Forum on November 16. The Women’s Board, a social and ...

Ameyavikram Pathak is Chief Executive Officer of investment management firm AVP Holdings and member of the Finance Committee of the Princeton Foundation for Peace and Learning. Armen Baibourtian is ...

Kathmandu, March 28 -- Nepal's economy currently remains under strain, with weak revenue collection, sluggish capital expenditure and declining foreign grants but with strong foreign currency reserves ...

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for "their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...

The Symbiosis School of Economics (SSE), a constituent institute of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), has ...